Testimony by Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy At the Hearing of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs On “U.S. Policy Towards Tibet: Access, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights” Thank...

Seoul Forum of the Asia Democracy Research Network I want to thank Sook Jong Lee, the East Asia Institute,...

The Struggle for Democracy and the Rule of Law in China The Library of Congress, January 31, 2017 I want to congratulate ChinaAid, which was founded in 2002 following the announcement of death sentences for five Chinese house church leaders. In...

Four Heroes and a Demagogue The Woodrow Wilson Center, December 5, 2016         Fidel Castro, who died on November 25, was a political tyrant who succeeded in convincing many people in the democratic world that he was actually...

As published in The Tibet Post on Mar. 24th, 2015. Jane Cook, Tibet Post International New Delhi — The spiritual...

Article by Carl Gershman as it appeared in the World Affairs Journal on Dec. 31, 2014. The year 2014 has been commonly viewed as a very bad one for democracy, which it was....

By Carl GershmanAs written in The Washington Post on November 16, 2014.Monday is the 25th anniversary of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Thursday, May 29, 2014, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will honor in absentia Chinese political prisoners Liu Xiaobo and Xu Zhiyong with the presentation...

On June 4, 1989, the world watched as Chinese tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square, bringing a violent end to the peaceful, student-led democracy movement and killing hundreds, maybe thousands, of citizens who sought political reform. Despite this brutal...

HAVEL AS A FIGHTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS It’s wonderful to be here with you this evening. With Ambassador Gandalovic, Madeleine, and the two Martins, I feel like I’m among family. I’ve been given five minutes to speak about Havel as a human rights fighter, and I want to use that...